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“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content. Where he…

— David A. Goodman

“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other people's eyes.…

— Ayn Rand

“He was ridiculously handsome, tall, lean yet solid with muscle. Politely immoral, indifferent to censure. As if he knew he was irresistible in all…

— C.C. Gibbs

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. His teacher had educated him as the child is educated in the womb, where it…

— T.H. White

“He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold…

— Sherwood Anderson

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of…

— Stephen King

“He was the type of person who was always on the periphery of one's attention, not outstanding for being handsome or intelligent or particularly…

— Azar Nafisi

“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as…

— Benjamin Black

“He was not quite eight-and-twenty, still swift and exact in his motions, and possessed of the kind of roguish, unsullied vigor that conveys neither…

— Eleanor Catton

“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow…

— Tim O'Brien